We keep talking about digital accessibility as an optional nice-to-have that gets tacked on at the end of a project if there is budget left, if the client insists, or if an audit happens to land badly. Meanwhile, SEO has been benefiting from it for fifteen years, user experience has always depended on it, the law now imposes it on private companies as well as the public sector, and agentic AI systems just discovered what screen reader users already knew. Strange.
